Posted on June 23, 2022June 23, 202206/21/2022 Gram guards the rooting juniperleaf. There’s a new pollinator garden on campus!! Very pleased at least one of the partridge pea seeds I sprinkled last year made it up. Paper wasps made a nest on the debris of the invasive clematis. A small lynx spider eats a fly Just noticed that the long true bugs have little flat pom poms on their antennae. A second individual. I think you have to see them from the right angle to get a good view of the antennae spots. Dog A helpful cat saw this wasp (maybe a spider wasp?) In the aloe and knocked the pot over. I took it outside and shooed the friend off. No dinner in the house for it. Only cat. I spotted a plume moth hiding on rain barrel stand. Potatoes in straw bale getting big. Hope roots are too.
Posted on June 5, 2022June 5, 202206/05/2022 indoor/outdoor I learned today that spiderworts are self-incompatible, so these buds didn’t have any seeds in them. Oh well. It was worth a try! Thanks Mom for sending and prompting me to look this up! It explains why we only have the one. 🙃 I repotted the aloe vera (not shown) and added some more dirt and another succulent to this pot, which lives inside in the entryway shelf. Milkweed beetle! It’s standing on a dayflower and moving over to a nightshade, though. Ashy Sunflower yet lives!! Linum rigidum from home still blooming. It’s annual so I hope it seeds! A different jumping spider. A lightning bug resting on a native poinsettia (Euphorbia) leaf.